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Psalms 30:2 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 2. 2O LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me.
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Quick Meaning
Psalm 30:2: The petition “O LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast…” belongs to the prayer “Mourning turned toward praise,” not to an isolated command.
Read It With
- Psalms 30:1–12
Read Psalms 30:2 with 30:1–12. Read alone, “O LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed…” could lose the individual voice, the parallel line or movement it develops, and the psalm's outcome. The complete movement establishes: Within Psalms 30:1–12, the individual voice carries the movement “Mourning turned toward praise” as part of “Mourning turned toward praise.” Its thanksgiving form and poetic parallelism hold the petitions, images, memories, or praise together before any single line is applied.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Psalms 30:1–12 opens Psalm 30 with “I will extol thee, O LORD; for thou hast lifted me up, and hast not made my foes…” and establishes the individual voice and “Mourning turned toward praise” movement before later lines develop or answer it. Within that relationship, Psalm 30:2 directs a petition or address toward God in “O LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me” rather than turning the line into a command against another person.
What Remains True
Read “O LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed…” as part of the individual voice in “Mourning turned toward praise.” Praise remembers concrete divine character and action, gathers many voices, and remains honest about grief rather than demanding one emotional performance. The local movement is “Mourning turned toward praise.” The unit's reviewed limit is: Healing thanksgiving bears witness to deliverance without promising that every faithful prayer produces immediate cure or blaming those still ill.
How It Can Shape Life
- Psalm 30:2 contributes to “Mourning turned toward praise” in a specific way: Psalm 30:2 directs a petition or address toward God in “O LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me” rather than turning the line into a command against another person. Respond by doing this: Join the praise around “O LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed…” in a form your community can receive, while leaving honest space for silence, lament, and disability.
Continue in Context
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Read Psalms 30:1–12 — Mourning turned toward praiseSources used for this Verse Lens
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Psalms 30:1–12, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Psalms
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a complete apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Ps.xml, OSIS 30:1–12
Open the fixed Hebrew Psalms file ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible Notes: Psalms 1-150
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, current official online edition
Supports: Verse-level controls for poetic syntax, imagery, older KJV language, textual issues, headings, and alternatives in Psalms 30:1–12.
Exact location: Official NET Bible Psalm 30 HTML, translator, textual, and study notes attached to Psalms 30:1–12
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